Tom Fishburne

Background

About Tom Fishburne

I started drawing cartoons on the backs of business cases as a student at Harvard Business School in My cartoons have grown by word of mouth to reach half a million business readers every week and have been featured by the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and the New York Times. In 2010, I started Marketoonist, a creative agency focused on the unique medium of cartoons. We create content marketing, thought leadership, and culture change campaigns with a sense of humor. We've worked with more than 200 businesses, including Google, Adobe, Braze, Microsoft, and LinkedIn. My most recent book is titled "Your Ad Ignored Here: Cartoons from 15 Years of Marketing, Business, and Doodling in Meetings." I also illustrated 3 business books with Deloitte:"Provoke"(Wall Street Journal Bestseller),"Detonate"(National Bestseller), and "Work Disrupted." I’m a frequent international keynote speaker on marketing, innovation, and digital transformation, using cartoons to help tell the story. An underlying theme is the role of humor as a leadership skill. I spoke at the TED headquarters in New York on "The Power of Laughing at Ourselves at Work." I draw (literally and figuratively) from 20 years in the marketing trenches in the US and Europe. I was interim CMO at HotelTonight, Marketing VP at Method Products, and marketed a variety of brands at Nestle and General Mills. While at iXL, one of the first digital agencies, I helped build web sites for Disney, Starwood, and Mayo Clinic. I started my marketing career selling advertising for the first English-language magazine in Eastern Europe. I live and draw near San Francisco with my family.